Music and Dance Events

Ballet adapted for children after the music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Duration 0:50 without intermission
Chamber hall

Opera by Richard Strauss / Guest performance at Istanbul, Turkey
Duration - 1:50
Guest performance at Kemal Atatürk Cultural Center Istanbul, Turkey
Preformed in german

Bulgaria Concert Hall
Conductor Nayden Todorov
Solоist/s Vesko Eschkenazy
Ensemble Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Program
Camille Saint-Saëns – Havanaise
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – “Mélodie” from Suite “Souvenir d’un lieu cher”, Op.42 for Violin and Orchestra
Camille Saint-Saëns – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra in А minor, Op. 28
Astor Piazzolla – “Winter” from the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Jules Massenet – “Meditation” for Violin and Orchestra from Opera “Thais”

Musical Theatre
Ballet "Arabesque" presents two of its most successful performances - "Carmina Burana" and "Bolero" - which have become the hallmark of Ballet "Arabesque".
These performances are a favourite not only of the Bulgarian audience but have also inspired explosive applauses on numerous world stages.

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CARMINA BURANA
Choreography – Boriana Sechanova
Music – Carl Orff
Costume design – Tsvetanka Petkova-Stoynova
The choreographer Boriana Sechanova seeks the closest dance equivalent of the songs, whose exceptionally poetic medieval texts are filled with vitality and irony. The music of Carl Orff recreates a matching nuance. With the immense richness of their contemporary sensibility, the dancers capture through their bodies the irony of the situation, in which a person lives with the belief that they are a master of their own life, while being guided and manipulated by the whims of Fate, which rises and revives, destroys and murders, comforts with vain hopes, while spinning the wheel of human life.

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BOLERO
Choreography – Margarita Arnaudova
Music – Maurice Ravel
Costumes – Maria Trendafilova
Rehearsal director – Olesia Pantikina
“Bolero” encapsulates a strong sense of programmatic structure together with a breathtaking atmosphere, where the ballet movement is stylized in the rhythm of the Spanish dance. The high expressivity of the dance is achieved through the polyphony in the choreography of Margarita Arnaudova.
“Bolero” is one of the emblematic performances of Ballet “Arabesque,” a part of the heritage of the great choreographer and director of the troupe, Margarita Arnaudova.

Conductor Nayden Todorov
Solоist/s Vesko Eschkenazy
Ensemble Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Program
Camille Saint-Saëns – Havanaise
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – “Mélodie” from Suite
“Souvenir d’un lieu cher”, Op.42 for Violin and Orchestra
Camille Saint-Saëns – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra in А minor, Op. 28
Astor Piazzolla – “Winter” from the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Jules Massenet – “Meditation” for Violin and Orchestra from Opera “Thais”

Chamber Hall
Solоist/s
Vencislava Asenova
Ensemble
Flautissimo Quartet

Chamber Hall
Solоist/s
Peter Makedonski
Krasimir Kostadinov
Bayou Staev
Mincho Tomanov
Sivo Penev
Kamen Asenov
Vencislava Asenova

Chamber Hall
Solоist/s
David Krumov
Ensemble
Philharmonica String Quartet

Bulgaria Concert Hall
Solоist/s Maya Bezhanska
Ensemble Quarto Quartet
Program Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)

Bulgaria Concert Hall
Conductor
Uroš Lajovic
Solоist/s
Borislava Taneva
Ensemble
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Program
Borislava Taneva – Musica Ad libitum for Piano and Orchestra
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.5